O pensamento-ação de Darcy Ribeiro e a universidade brasileira: repensando a universidade necessária

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the path made by Darcy Ribeiro and how his thoughts and acts influenced the brazilian education. He had an intense political participation in the government, in the 60 s with the creation of the Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF), in years 1990. This study also analyses the meaning of the conception of State and Civil Society. It demonstrates how the ideology gets to naturalize historic facts. This research strongly criticizes the theory claims of the liberalism and also points to the culturally and economically predatory trends of the present globalization process. Following orientations of international organs, the Brazilian administrations have been delegating responsibilities of financing and providing higher education to the private sector, by means of different privatization strategies in the public sector. This work takes about the importance in the development of humanist thought and actions of Darcy Ribeiro, by understanding that diversification of people and their recognition, which he called civilizing process , are closely connected in his writings and in his actions in view of the creation the University Necessary.